Checking in on North Avenue’s retail scene

After confirming that we could find plenty of homes for rent in Bucktown simply by driving the neighborhood’s streets, Joe Zekas and I drove along North Avenue, one of Bucktown’s major commercial strips, looking for commercial vacancies. The street seemed healthy, especially in the blocks closest to the six-corner intersection of North, Damen, and Milwaukee, but there were plenty of empty retail spaces to be found the closer we got to Ashland.